Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is HAM. The desk holds a consignment that is late, valuable or perishable, finds the first departure that fits, and then looks for a courier who can be at the counter in time. Lübeck is 1 hour 11 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 118 nonstop destinations.
Open · Germany desk · Lübeck
On Board Courier, Lübeck
If you are in Lübeck you are 1 hour 11 minutes from Hamburg and 118 scheduled nonstop destinations. That is the whole starting qualification. Freelance, per assignment, ticket paid.
OnBoard Courier is a United Arab Emirates company, contracted by ICSL FZE and run from Dubai. A city named on this site is a place we cover and route through, not a separate company in that city. Assignments are contracted under UAE law, and the terms are published in full under legal and policies.
Based inLübeck, Schleswig-Holstein
Nearest gateHAM · Hamburg
Drive to the aircraft78 km · 1 hour 11 minutes
Nonstop from HAM118 airports
EngagementFreelance · per assignment
Fee per assignmentAED 1,200 to 2,000
Apply for this position
Applying is free. Freelance · self-employed ·
posted 7 September 2026 · open until 7 March 2027
What the work pays
The fee for an assignment is agreed with you in writing before you accept it. These are the figures the site publishes, and what the desk covers on top of them.
Top published feeAED 2,000The highest fee the site shows for a single assignment: sealed medical samples in a cooled case, Dubai to Singapore.
Published band, per assignmentAED 1,200 to 2,000A document pouch to London is AED 1,200, an aircraft part to Frankfurt AED 1,500, an escorted watch on the Berlin lane AED 1,800.
What the flight costs youAED 0The desk books and pays the ticket, the transfers and, where the routing needs it, the hotel. A courier never fronts the fare.
The one payment you makeAED 199, returnedThe Academy, paid once. It comes back in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. Applying itself is free.
Fees vary with the lane, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate, so the desk quotes each assignment individually rather than pretending one number fits every trip. You are self-employed and there is no minimum: accept or decline whatever you like, and declining costs you nothing. Earnings are paid per delivery by bank transfer, they appear in your courier portal, and you can request a payout once the balance reaches AED 200. Apply and see the flight board.
You fly as a passengerOne consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature. No warehouse, no van, no round.
The desk books and pays the ticketFlight, transfers and, where the routing needs it, a hotel are booked before you leave for the airport.
Paid per assignmentA fee agreed in writing before you accept, paid to your bank account after the signature. Applying is free.
How to start, in four steps
1
Apply once
One application covers every country desk. Tell us which passports you hold and where you can travel.
2
Verification and the Academy
Identity and background check, then a short course on customs, handovers and chain of custody.
3
Your first offer
The desk sends the routing, the dates and the fee in writing. You accept or decline, nothing is automatic.
4
Fly, hand over, get paid
Collect, board, clear customs in person, hand over against signature, and the fee is paid to your account.
The assignment
There is no roster and no shift on the Lübeck list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 78 km to HAM, board, land, clear, hand over. The Gulf sector out of HAM is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Lübeck
The ground leg from Lübeck is 78 km to Hamburg, about 1 hour 11 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Lübeck it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
A drive of 1 hour 11 minutes is comfortable for a same day departure as long as the call comes with a couple of hours in hand, which most do. Lübeck has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. BRE at 1 hour 59 minutes adds 31 nonstop destinations to the 118 at HAM.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAM | Hamburg | 78 km | 1 hour 11 minutes | 118 |
| BRE | Bremen | 182 km | 1 hour 59 minutes | 31 |
Lübeck is a city of 212,000 people in Schleswig-Holstein, and the clock there runs 2 hours behind the Emirates in summer and 3 in winter. Road distances are measured driving routes rather than straight lines, and nonstop counts come from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
What HAM reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Hamburg: 118 nonstop destinations, 44 countries, 50 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUC | Munich | Munich | about 17 departures a day | 3 operators: Eurowings, Lufthansa |
| FRA | Frankfurt-am-Main | Frankfurt-am-Main | about 15 departures a day | 3 operators: Condor, Lufthansa |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca | Palma De Mallorca | about 13 departures a day | 3 operators: Eurowings, Condor, Ryanair |
| ZRH | Zurich | Zurich Kloten | about 9 departures a day | 3 operators: Eurowings, SWISS |
| VIE | Vienna | Vienna Schwechat | about 8 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, Austrian Airlines |
| LHR | London | London Heathrow | about 6 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, British Airways |
| AYT | Antalya | Antalya | about 6 departures a day | 4 operators: Pegasus Airlines |
| CDG | Paris | Paris Charles de Gaulle | about 6 departures a day | 2 operators: Eurowings, Air France |
| AMS | Amsterdam | Amsterdam Schiphol | about 6 departures a day | 1 operator: KLM |
| IST | Istanbul | Istanbul | about 6 departures a day | 1 operator: Turkish Airlines |
Counting every airport a courier in Lübeck can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 124 airports. Frequencies are average daily flights and change with the season, so the desk checks the live schedule before it offers you anything.
The industry inside this catchment
The public industrial geography around HAM explains where the urgent traffic comes from. These are matters of public record, listed here as the reason work arises near Lübeck, and naming a site is not a claim that the company is a customer of ours.
- Airbus, Hamburg Finkenwerder. A320 family final assembly, cabin and cargo installation. Second largest civil aviation site in the world by employment, and a permanent source of AOG and line down movements. It sits on HAM, which is 1 hour 11 minutes from Lübeck by road, and the sector is aerospace.
- Airbus, Stade. Carbon fibre composite structures, including the A350 vertical tail plane. Composite parts are made once and cannot be substituted. It sits on HAM, which is 1 hour 11 minutes from Lübeck by road, and the sector is aerospace.
Why a courier in Lübeck is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Lübeck is inside one. Lübeck sits inside the catchment of Hamburg, 78 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The Emirates end of the lane looks like this from HAM. From Lübeck the Gulf is a single sector: HAM and DXB are joined nonstop, about 2 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 6h 17m in the air over 4,900 km, and it means a consignment can leave Lübeck in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Germany list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Lübeck
Hamburg58 km away, HAM in 22 minutesKiel62 km away, HAM in 1 hourRostock98 km away, HAM in 2 hours 16 minutesBremerhaven143 km away, BRE in 49 minutesBremen153 km away, BRE in 7 minutesWolfsburg161 km away, HAJ in 1 hour 4 minutesHanover178 km away, HAJ in 23 minutesBrunswick179 km away, HAJ in 52 minutesOldenburg182 km away, BRE in 40 minutesMagdeburg203 km away, LEJ in 1 hour 16 minutesPotsdam228 km away, BER in 40 minutesBerlin235 km away, BER in 45 minutes
All 56 Germany cities are listed on the Germany courier desk, which stays the general application for the country.
The engagement, and who we are looking for
The engagement
- Type: freelance, self-employed. You are an independent courier accepting individual assignments, not an employee, and you decide which ones you take.
- Where it runs: assignments are flown out of HAM and the other airports listed above, between Germany and wherever the consignment is going, with the return leg agreed per mission.
- Hours: variable. An assignment is a single trip, not a shift or a roster.
- How you are paid: a fee per completed assignment, agreed in writing before you accept it. The fees published on this site run from AED 1,200 for a document pouch to AED 2,000 for a cooled medical consignment, and the figure for your assignment reflects the lane, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate.
- What the desk pays: the flight, the transfers and, where the routing needs it, the hotel. A courier never pays for the ticket and never fronts the fare.
- Applying is free. No payment is required to apply, to be screened or to be placed on the courier list. The Academy costs AED 199, paid once, and is returned in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. It is the only payment a courier ever makes to us.
What we look for
- A passport with comfortable remaining validity and free pages, and the right to enter the country on the routing. The desk checks the visa position for your specific passport before any assignment is offered.
- A clean background check and a willingness to be verified. Couriers carry other people’s property.
- Availability at short notice, and a realistic view of the 1 hour 11 minutes drive to HAM. Most assignments are confirmed hours, not days, before departure.
- Presentable, calm and articulate at a customs counter. The consignment is only as smooth as the person carrying it.
- A working phone, reachable on the number you gave us, for the whole assignment.
What we provide
- The ticket. Always. A courier never pays for the flight and never fronts the fare.
- The paperwork, prepared before you reach HAM, and a named contact at the desk on both ends.
- A briefing on the consignment, the consignee and what the customs position at the far end looks like.
- A fee per completed assignment, agreed with you in advance and paid by bank transfer after the handover.
Questions about the Lübeck list
01How far is Lübeck from HAM?
1 hour 11 minutes and 78 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Lübeck rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Lübeck without a change of aircraft?
HAM serves 118 airports nonstop across 44 countries with 50 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Lübeck can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 124 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Lübeck to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Lübeck the Gulf is a single sector: HAM and DXB are joined nonstop, about 2 departures a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 6h 17m in the air over 4,900 km, and it means a consignment can leave Lübeck in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
04Do I have to live in the UAE to be on this list?
No. The company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Lübeck. The Lübeck list exists because somebody has to be near HAM when a consignment appears in Schleswig-Holstein.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Lübeck and free to be screened. The one charge anywhere in the process is the AED 199 Academy, paid once and refunded on top of your first assignment fee.
06How is my fee agreed?
The desk sends the routing, the timing and the fee for that specific assignment in writing. You accept or decline it. Nothing is deducted or charged without your written agreement.
Apply to fly out of HAM
Put your name down for Lübeck. There is no cost to apply from Lübeck, no minimum, and no obligation to accept anything you are offered.
Apply for this positionSee all openingsThe HAM atlas entry · The BRE atlas entry · The Germany courier desk · Germany country guide · All courier openings · Apply to the courier network